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Bruce McAvaney

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1698 total appearances

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Bruce McAvaney | Channel 7 Sports broadcasting Legend (03.06.26)

But that's another story.

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Bruce McAvaney | Channel 7 Sports broadcasting Legend (03.06.26)

But now I am looking forward to it.

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Bruce McAvaney | Channel 7 Sports broadcasting Legend (03.06.26)

The Commonwealth Games and Seven are throwing a lot into it.

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Bruce McAvaney | Channel 7 Sports broadcasting Legend (03.06.26)

There's so many.

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Bruce McAvaney | Channel 7 Sports broadcasting Legend (03.06.26)

I mean, Kieran McCann running into that stadium in Melbourne.

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Bruce McAvaney | Channel 7 Sports broadcasting Legend (03.06.26)

It's hard to just, you had to be there, didn't you?

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Bruce McAvaney | Channel 7 Sports broadcasting Legend (03.06.26)

I mean, it was just amazing.

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Bruce McAvaney | Channel 7 Sports broadcasting Legend (03.06.26)

And, you know, her story, of course.

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Bruce McAvaney | Channel 7 Sports broadcasting Legend (03.06.26)

But Ollie Hoare, you know, running down two world champions from the top of the straight at Birmingham to win a 1,500-meter gold medal that only Herb Elliott had been able to achieve.

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Bruce McAvaney | Channel 7 Sports broadcasting Legend (03.06.26)

Robert DiCostello in 1982 running down Gibbema-Shahanga and Chimera-Kanga.

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Bruce McAvaney | Channel 7 Sports broadcasting Legend (03.06.26)

Laylene Boyle on her last legs, so to speak, but still fast last legs in 1982, winning that gold medal to equal Marjorie Jackson with seven Commonwealth Games gold medals.

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Bruce McAvaney | Channel 7 Sports broadcasting Legend (03.06.26)

Before Paul in Manchester and Susie in Kuala Lumpur, the netball, those finals against New Zealand in particular, there's long lists.

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Bruce McAvaney | Channel 7 Sports broadcasting Legend (03.06.26)

There's long lists.

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Bruce McAvaney | Channel 7 Sports broadcasting Legend (03.06.26)

And, you know, all these things sort of go through your mind.

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Bruce McAvaney | Channel 7 Sports broadcasting Legend (03.06.26)

I mean, the greatest moment probably, well, the two greatest moments, I wasn't there for.

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Bruce McAvaney | Channel 7 Sports broadcasting Legend (03.06.26)

One was Philbert by, you know, running from the front in 1974 and breaking the 1,500-metre wall.

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Bruce McAvaney | Channel 7 Sports broadcasting Legend (03.06.26)

You know, no one could believe at the time.

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Bruce McAvaney | Channel 7 Sports broadcasting Legend (03.06.26)

And then, of course, the Miracle Mile in 1954.

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Bruce McAvaney | Channel 7 Sports broadcasting Legend (03.06.26)

I think, you know, part of the Commonwealth Games fame does go back to Landy and Bannister and that incredible race in 1954.

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Bruce McAvaney | Channel 7 Sports broadcasting Legend (03.06.26)

And, you know, Bannister had been the first to break the four-minute mile in May.